Tuesday, April 30, 2013

(As the photo
suggests, Jihad among both sub-aquatic bottom feeders and Islamic extremists is
never pretty.)

Yes, even as I
commit these words to some digital phantom
world,I'm more than aware that the Citizen
Hearing on Disclosure is taking place in Washington, D.C. this week, and I
beg your sympathy and understanding as I hide under a desk until the affair
ends.Despite one's best intentions,
when I see these unofficial little UFO-related soirees occurring in D.C., only
one word comes to mind:Greer.The name which may, but need not be, present
to win amongst the gems and the clutter.
But best wishes and good luck to all. Enjoy.

Anyway, some
members of the mainstream press assigned to cover the week's proceedings were
surely present at the White House Correspondents dinner this weekend,
hee-hawing over zingers and guffaws barely two weeks after a little boy's
murder by terrorist explosives in Boston.Barely two weeks after three adults were sliced to death while body
parts of survivors were torn asunder due to instantaneous traumatic
disarticulation.

Barely two weeks
after our society was again put on heightened alert from coast to coast.

But no
matter.Glitter counts, and decades
after its inception, The Big Dinner in D.C. attempted to outdo itself.A star-studded gala, indeed, populated by
members and embers of the Washington press corps and associates, both Democrat
and Republican notables and, not to be forgotten -- many of Hollywood's
familiar faces, be they actors, directors, producers or other denizens of the
celebrity realm.Yes, the movers and
shakers of the country, those who make the news of irrelevance and those who
report the news as if the irrelevant were relevant for the rest of us.

Take a good,
long look, America -- in that room were some of the folk who dictate public
policy and plan our daily lives.A
mainstream media enveloped by and intertwined with a profoundly corrupt political
system, Hollywood, money, excess, power and control -- and the rest of us don't
matter a damn except as pawns.Unfortunately, many pawns willingly accept the role.

Jokes flew like
airborne virus droplets as the crowd roared, and an eight-year-old American boy
and others, intent only upon watching a marathon of runners in Boston, remained
dead, gone and forgotten by laughing and grinning human masks attending the
exclusive press dinner, and whom, after belching, wiping their mouths with
luxury napkins and probably exuding a fart or two, would return to their lairs
to execute a continuing barrage of articles focused compassionately upon two
young men and their gutter-trash family.

Yet, even as
Boston's mayhem loomed fresh and the correspondents' dinner
"progressed," President Obama still couldn't use the words,
Islam extremists, nor radical Muslims.Nor will government agencies, having been
instructed to tone down the truth.Boston's tragedy, like Fort Hood’s little incident, might ultimately require
an official designation of workplace violence, to avoid hurting the feelings of
groups who sympathize with the perpetrators.

Obama doesn't
get it?No, Obama does get it, but he
refuses to publicly detail that connection between Muslims who live in peace --
and the rest of them.He can only do
that with the proper words, and when one witnesses an Administration which,
until a few days ago, couldn't even excavate the word, terrorism and
certainly won't semantically implement that old chestnut, war on terror,
particularly when the Islamic element must be implicated, there's a
problem.How can our intelligence
agencies function effectively, when real terror and its practitioners are
downgraded to bogeyman status?Instructions
and manuals used by government intelligence agencies are said to have experienced extracted
references combining Islam with terror threats, as if by word surgeons.

So yet we
wait.

Maybe we wait
until before or after the next correspondents’ dinner, or maybe nobody will notice
because some drug-infested Hollywood starlet will break a fingernail and head
off for pampering and rehab -- but no matter, it will happen.More terrorism in the USA.It won't be the Tea Party, nor a gang of organized
psycho-Christians. Whatever the format, it will occur on behalf of radical
Islam.Again, the press will meow and
swoon, political leaders will insist upon more control over us all and, after
the usual routine of tearful speeches by government representatives who won't
dare utter the words, extremist Islam, we'll bury our dead and return to
a willing embrace of short and long-term memory loss.What a society -- influential media
wordsmiths and a president who refuse to accurately use the valuable cache of
dictionary tools arranged conveniently before them, so all the rest of us can
do is continue whistling in the dark, all the while building coffins in sizes
big and small.

You say Syria, I say Shariah, it’s all the same to
me,
and the almost incoherent whisperings, the thought of putting American boots on
the ground, is abhorrent.If the Syrian
government falls, the story will be the same.Radical Islam will take over and the United States will be hated more
than ever.With the kind assistance of
President Obama’s foreign policy, whatever that is, extremists have claimed one
Middle Eastern country after another as our military people sacrifice
life and limb.There is no winning here,
and while I’m not keen on saying a good word about Russia – which isn’t about
to watch its Syrian government allies fall – we do need to back off and back
out.Obama’s non-existent Islamic terror
is the only other potential winner in the region.By the way, if O hadn’t shot off his big clueless mouth
and promised consequences if chemical weapons were used, and now finds himself
dumbfounded and probably as anxious as a child who just urinated in her party
dress, forging ahead may have been a bit easier.

And it appears that several government people who
know the truth about Benghazi may testify, even after claims of threats
by the Obama Administration regarding their careers.All I can say is, don’t forget to invite
Hillary Clinton, far from loquacious on this matter – Hillary, whose legacy as
Secretary of State will historically be regarded as dead in the water, to put
it mildly.Word is, those who testify
will assert that an attempt to save our people could have been made, perhaps
successfully.

Danger lurks
from within.May we be comforted by
three little words of hope, though bordering on impossible because the Equal
Justice Railway apparently lost its glow once the far spiffier Social Justice Express breezed into
town: Impeach, impeach, impeach.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Seems as though the American
melting pot isn't melting its contents so well
anymore.Oh yeah, it's plenty hot in here, but some of the human components
aren't impressed with those rare American flames of individual freedom. Or, some would say, with what remains of
freedom.Whose fantasy stories?Whose truth?We've gone from vampires to hell fires, from werewolves in dens to lone wolves with
friends.Two brothers and a Saudi man
with burned hands, an order for deportation and then a cancellation, and so
much more.Heads spin.

Last week,
Boston.This week, Al Qaeda’s foiled
plans to wreck a train on a very high bridge between New York and Toronto,
orchestrated by Iran.And who would have
guessed that two non-citizen Canadian residents with Middle East-sounding names,
the intended perpetrators, were arrested after being watched for some time by
the authorities, as they conducted their deadly planning in Montreal and
Toronto?

Does anybody
understand?We’re at war, and the enemy
is crawling up your leg.This isn’t a
3-D movie, it’s reality.They’re here.

Have ours and
other nations not been warned repeatedly about the dangers of
multiculturalism?Assimilation isn't,
um, exactly defined by what just occurred in Boston.The religious interfaith thing isn't doing
too well, either, unless you don't mind inviting in people intent upon
converting you by force or, failing that, killing you.There is no room for negotiations in radical
Islam.

And I would like
to take this opportunity to "thank" religious organizations, perhaps
especially the Catholics, who assist all sorts of interesting
"refugees" and various global detritus in entering the USA.Even people so valuable to this country that
they need lessons in how to use a toilet.At this time in our history, we need brains and talent imported, not
simply the huddled masses -- of which there are no end, by the way.Some of those huddles contain enemies,
willing to be fed, clothed and housed by kind people and nations whom they
would sooner kill and destroy.Then they
have kids whom are schooled with a certain extreme agenda.Good intentions and the road to hell, and we
pay for the paving with money, life and limb.

How ingrained is
Islamic terror?Bad enough for Russia's
Putin to converse with President Obama and promise assistance.Russia knows Islamic terror, and most of that
comes from the area of Chechnya.I remember
when Chechnyans invaded a Russian movie theater and started killing children
and adults -- and Russia barricaded the doors and gassed everybody inside, even
the innocent, because they knew none would survive the well-armed Islamic men
and women inside anyway.Then there was
the school invasion by Islamists who killed, tortured and mutilated a school
full of Russian kids, barely tall enough to look into the eyes of the radical
strangers who determined their fate.

Yet, the USA
overflows with hearts of human kindness and those whom, even after Boston, will
not see the damned nearly invisible war in which we are engulfed right here on
our shores and within the heartland.Nor
is our government telling us what we need to know.When I posted for readers my Halloween story,
"More Than Anything," a few months back, I had thought particularly
of Chechnya while conceiving identities for the mysterious two.Strangely, Boston encountered a mysterious two
as well.Two who were palpable, at any
rate.

News reports
indicate the younger brother ran his vehicle over his wounded sibling, thus
killing him off.Did he do so to keep
his bro from talking?Did they have an
agreement that one would end the other as a mercy killing before detainment and
questions could occur?Did the younger
brother snap and have some realization that the radical poop his brother was
feeding him was nonsense?Or did he just
hate his brother for orchestrating him into this mess?Most likely, he was just frantic to escape,
no less guilty and no less cunningly radical than the other.

Dunno, maybe I
just need to undergo government sensitivity training today, because I'm not
doing very well putting up with the Islamic fascist thing, what with Islamic
terrorists, radical mosques in my country, the Wahabi sect, the wars and
brutality of jihad, Chechnya, radical Muslims, Saudi Arabia's death grip in the
USA, C.A.I.R., the determined quest at any cost for a world Caliphate, the
freakin' Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, the ongoing murders of Coptic Christians
in Egypt indirectly supported by our tax money -- and, you know, here in the
USA we sure have a lot of weeding out to do, because the influence of the
religion of anything but peace has even, according to some, infected our
government and military, top to bottom.Regrettably, political correctness and compassion have allowed it to
happen.Isn't it just about time to cure
this nuisance infestation, starting with the political rats who encourage its
existence?

The late radio
talk show host Larry Glick offered a great evening program on Boston's WBZ
years ago.I remember listening in
October of 1978 when young Australian pilot Frederick Valentich disappeared
somewhere over the ocean in the dark, after expressing puzzlement that he
apparently wasn't alone out there, and the last thing air traffic controllers
heard was a metallic scraping sound.Glick delved right into this, a still bitterly unresolved UFO mystery,
phoning an Australian journalist for the latest details.Larry Glick was a real treasure for WBZ,
always willing to dial up a competent UFO sighting witness, and he treated his
guests and callers fairly.Away from the studio, he
entertained and amazed Bostonians with his other talent -- as a hypnotist.

I wonder what he
would have thought about Boston's mayhem?No doubt, he would have inspired Bostonians to look beyond the chaos to
capture the perpetrators, and he may well have encountered callers who knew all
about the whom and the what.

Boston's annual
marathon holds no interest for me.All I
see are throngs of people clamoring to become first in line for artificial knee
replacements, sooner rather than later, and each and every one would say that's
overplayed -- but I can only go by what I've seen.We're not made for such joint abuseIf we did more thinking and less running, we
might benefit.If God had wanted us to
engage in frenzied runs, we'd have been born with horse legs.But I shouldn't complain -- prosthetic knee
manufacturing creates jobs.

So the carnage
and terror are over in Massachusetts.For now, at least. Did terrorism win in Boston?That requires a yes-and-no answer, and I'll
leave it to the faithful to continue arguing the "no" side.I think "yes" because terror
successfully shut Boston down for hours, and it could have been longer.Additionally, though we may not have noticed,
freedom became instantly less free and spying on all levels will become even
more ingrained, both in personal terms and technologically.Two brothers, two bastard brothers did
it.And not alone, not by a long shot,
whether via travel or by Internet.Even
the darkest parts of our world have eyes capable of a panoramic view.

Meanwhile,
President Obama and his merry bunch prefer to concentrate upon the Second
Amendment and all the reasons they can concoct on why Americans should find it
increasingly difficult to get guns.Yes,
far better to worry about folks who crave guns for their own safety than to
fret over Muslim radicals with bigger ideas.

And, again
meanwhile, not a word from the Obama Administration about the long, long delay
in the trial of the mass-murdering, jihad-crazed Major Hasan at Fort Hood.

I'm not sure
what we need more right now -- bomb-sniffing dogs, or Obama Admin-sniffing dogs?

Boston.I'll put my confidence in the good citizens,
the cops, firemen and instant-response medical personnel who saved what was
left of that horrible day.Then
(groan...) there was the case of the mainstream media who got things wrong over
and over non-stop during the dog-eat-dog quest to be first (Twitter is
said to be the hands-down information hero of social media during the event). .
.and then the "national security" talking heads showing up on TV, who
congratulated each other for being on the job after the grim reaper of
death and mayhem achieved success and wrote its own history accurately.

Media giants and
government representatives who work for us.Things they know but won’t tell.Shameless.Criminal.Iran wants nukes, we hear it over and over --
but not a word about Saudi Arabia injecting our society with toxic
beliefs and poison people.Must keep the
Saudis happy, and universities sure love the money imported with the thousands
of Saudi students who come to the USA, both to learn. . .and to engage in other
activities as well. If they look upon us as
morons, it's because we are morons.

Shadows of
Benghazi flitted unnoticed across the land just hours after a blustering
President Obama threw a nationally publicized tantrum because he didn't get his
politically motivated wish to control guns and control us.Background checks?Who can predict the future based upon the
past?Who can know everything?I'm betting there's a ton of highly liberal
Bostonians ponying up the money to buy firearms as we write this -- people who
never entertained a single thought of A Gun In The House.That's the variety of gun "common
sense" the president should have referenced, not his hysterical milk sop
plea as he, with the same vocal cords, refuses to utter the words, Islamic terrorists or radical Muslims.

The FBI screwed
up on tracking the older brother?No, it
didn't.It merely followed instructions
from the top, where the Obama bunch has done everything it can to make sure our
intelligence agency capabilities are watered down while he praises Islam and
would have us all waving and kissing mosques as we pass by.

President Obama
needs to be impeached.Janet Napolitano
and Eric Holder?Persons of interest.The mainstream media, the Republicans and the
Democrats have screwed us to the moon.The bankers are cozy with the Saudis?What's up with Glenn Beck and The Blaze (see link) now possessing
iron-clad documentation -- along with members of Congress who might care,
rather thanC.A.I.R. -- about others
involved or at least present during the Boston events AND the (no surprise)
Saudi Arabian link to damned nearly everything radical in this country?

We need to find
out who did this, promised Obama.We need
to find out why they did it, promised Obama.Except everybody knew who did it, and why, though maybe Obama himself
was truly incapable.He's into Islamic
peace and love and a world which cooperates for the common good.Meantime, there's a crop of former Muslims
out there who know otherwise, and they have written books (such as They Must Be Stopped) to warn the
infidels that there is no escape from the Caliphate.You convert or you die.The instruments of Caliphate are here and all
over the world to see it through.

Boston is cooked
and done and liberally progressive, do or die.Who's next?We're all next, and
next time the perpetrators might know better than to appear like bait before public cameras,
and pressure cookers may well be so-o-o-o-o old hat as they proceed with
cunning and caution.

While we anxiously
await a follow-up to a lengthy list of foul-ups, the boneheaded immigration bill -- worse than we knew -- makes its
way through Congress, and the point is made that we need to know who is here in
the country before we grant citizenship.Well, Boston taught us that we know who's here, and even then
we're in danger. It didn't matter.

What's it going
to take, a nuke?Bio-terror?Well, staring those events in the face, at
least we can make sure our pals, the Saudis, leave the country safely, as
George Bush did after 9/11.

So now there are
calls to ban or limit gunpowder availability, and of course this comes from the
usual congressional and gubernatorial mouthpieces wishing and willing to
deprive us of personal protection and rights.Perhaps increasingly unpopular NY governor Andrew Cuomo and NY City
mayor Michael Bloomberg will consider banning boats, obviously the convenient
temporary lair for terrorist brother number two and potentially for all future
terrorists.

A major question
is, how long can law enforcement agencies at all levels -- staffed by people
with far more integrity than anybody running things at the top -- continue to
tolerate instructions to cover up things Americans should be informed
about?The corruption must be dripping
from the ceilings by now.How is it that
Administration officials reportedly tell members of Congress, face to face,
that they won't provide answers to important questions?Who balances the balance of power
anymore?Like wet insulation in the
ceiling, there's rot at the top, suffused with a few pages from the Koran, and
both House and Senate members need to get off their well-powdered asses and
start ripping out the toxins.Yes,
elections do have consequences.So does
the self-perpetuating game of Islamic musical chairs involving the Muslim
Brotherhood, C.A.I.R. and who knows what else, and we don’t want to play that
game anymore.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

[THE
BOSTON MURDERTHON:The
title way up above for this entry applies to the next section, but the Boston mayhem
occurred after I assumed everything was ready to go.There's not much to say, except I'm willing
to be crude enough to ask whether the government would classify this disaster
as "workplace violence," as it did the Fort Hood radical Islamic
jihad massacre.No, we don't know who is
responsible in Boston as I write this, and of course we offer our deepest
sympathies to the people and families involved in Boston.But I can't help thinking -- this week we
experienced the horror of bombs (again) in the USA, and just a few days ago a
bonkers college student slashed and sliced numerous people within an inch of
their lives on a campus, using a simple knife.Yet, President Obama and willing state government mockingbirds have a
strange preference for turning millions of law-abiding citizens with
guns into a new untrustworthy class.In
the meantime, Mr. President, maybe you'd better take less expensive vacations
and spend a little less time at the golf course -- and maybe pass up a couple
of those elaborate White House concert sessions that sooth your Hollywood
friends and other members of the big money crowd who supported your
extravagancies -- and actually try to be a leader, instead of an orator
spouting blissful dreams saddled with crushing debt.Prez dude couldn't even use the word, terrorism,
during his brief initial speech, instantly urinating off everybody in Boston
who knew better, instantaneously, though by the next day his handlers made
certain to include the forbidden word -- forbidden since we were informed there
was no longer a war on terrorism per se.Oopsie.You know, it's not merely
that the president is an empty suit when it comes to speeches.The problem is that the emperor has no
clothes.Period.

The thing is, this Administration
has failed us again, gambling away American lives within our borders, and now
we all may as well live in Benghazi.Danger runs rampant while all those billions spent on "homeland
security" in the U.S. promise nothing except lots of spying on the
innocent.In no way should you surrender
your guns, and I say that as somebody who has no particular interest in guns --
but I demand the unencumbered, established right to have them if I wish.Unfortunately, this country currently
displays publicly a number of political thugs who pounced upon just the right
moment to emerge from their cockroach eggs to show us what they're made of, and
it's not a pretty sight.

Everything which follows was
written well in advance of the comments I made above, and obviously some of
this now seems watered down considerably:]

___

One thing the Obama White House bunch deals out nearly to perfection is the sympathy
card, in lieu of reason and common sense, and when it comes to gaining control
over our lives they are absolutely shameless in their attempts, making crucial
decisions out of the public eye before prettying or crying them up for a public
willingly gripped by hysteria.This
time, or I should say once again, cute little children's faces have been thrust
upon the TV news shows and other forms of mass media like chicken feed.But this time there's a difference, something
new, something Newtown, because kids' faces are those of the dead.And because just enough is hardly ever just
enough, parental grief is being trumpeted by this Administration to the max,
all in hopes of a colossal government power grab masked by more useless
feel-good gun legislation.Never, ever
let a good crisis go to waste.Why
aren't the White House compassionistas shuttling the one (at least one)
very vocal pro Second Amendment Newtown father around the country on Air
Force One to explain his point of view?I guess he won't be allowed speaking privileges before the Saturday
morning presidential message microphone, though had the Republicans let him
speak to counter the White House's April 13 Newtown mother's emotional plea,
that would have offered some balance.

Obama's gang of
progressive tear-jerker public relations engineers are just cowardly enough to
weave the fibers of dead children into the American flag, their version
of the flag, and to use tattered parents like survivors of a poster child
massacre.If utter and honest
compassion was involved here, I would feel differently, but I think many of us
already know this bunch for its self-perpetuating maneuvers.Why not invite all the mothers and fathers of
military personnel cut down in the Middle East under White House auspices and
let them speak about Why Guns Were Important and Essential to Their
Kids?Why not invite mayor Rahm E. of
Chicago -- whom they know well -- to explain why over 500 people were murdered
there last year despite iron-clad gun laws?Why not ban automobiles, annually the killer weapons of distinction in
the USA?

But let's get
real -- it's not the murders and it's not the guns.It's the power grab, and if some very dirty
publicity people collaborating with an Administration ridden with more agendas
than fleas on a dog can convince the nation that merely a little nip and tuck
regarding our basic rights will make us all safer, kiss goodbye to yet another
piece of freedom.In the meantime, hear
me well and take heed, because this will portray me badly, but it needs
to be said:If we continue making legislation
and changing every little thing in our lives "for the children" (oh,if we can save just one. . .), we'll end up as prisoners in our own
homes, afraid to move or speak, lest we offend somebody, or violate some new
law we don't even know about. Or that
doesn't exist.In short, far more
dangerous things than guns lurk in the shadows.

But the
electronic mainstream media continues to enjoy the firearm and murdered
children hoopla, and so it might because TV news ratings and TV viewing in
general maintain a steady decline.We
can no longer put our trust in the evening news, and because all major
news media in the USA now reportedly suffer and plod on under the thumb of less than a
dozen owners, the choices are almost universally bad because they are universally
manipulated.

Tents at the New
York State Fair concealed more than freak shows in the sixties
(see previous blog entry), and as a kid I also liked to spend some time in the
elephant tent with a bag of peanuts, watching majestic trunks descend to grasp
a favorite treat.I've not attended a
fair in years, but, like the "freak shows" which disappeared with the
times, I doubt that elephant exhibits are as carefree and open as they once
were, for the only thing between visitors and elephants then was a
"fence" composed of a waist-high rope running horizontally and
attached every few feet to little posts.Yes, the elephants were chained at the ankles, so I suppose safety was
somewhat assured.

Yet, I felt
sorry for them, confined as they were on a concrete floor padded only with a
little straw or sawdust, and the inability to engage in typical elephant
activities must have been agonizing, because their boredom was obvious,
demonstrated by their constant side-to-side rocking motion where they
stood.What else could they do, besides
watch people gawk and feed them peanuts?

And now nearly
50 years
have passed, but the image of elephants has returned -- a terrifying image, as
reported by King Broadcasting Co. and other sources last month.Mass elephant slaughters for tusks of ivory
is nothing new, tragically, but this time the International Fund for Animal
Welfare disclosed that poachers in Chad killed 86, including pregnant females,
in less than a week, merely to take their ivory -- destined, as usual, mostly
for wealthy and influential Chinese bastards.Criminal enterprises in both Asia and Africa have grown and expanded the
ivory "industry," and various nations -- particularly China -- have
been warned that decisive action must be taken to end the brutality and
attractive profit motive involved.As if
they care or ever did.

Which brings me
to talk show host and author Michael Savage.Some of you may know him only from your friends or relatives whose
politics get in the way, causing them to tell you he's a monster, a madman, or
a bully, steeped in the tradition of talkers Joe Pyne or Morton Downey,
Jr.Actually, that's what I expected,
too, when I first encountered him a few years ago on talk radio.However, if you hang in there with him for a
few days or weeks, you begin to realize that, despite all of his sarcasm, anger
and tendency to be rude or short with callers, this is a man with both a brain
and a heart.Currently broadcasting
evenings Monday through Friday from San Francisco, Savage is no ignorant
lightweight.Indeed, he grew up on the
mean streets of New York City -- about which he tells some great stories and
has written of them in his books -- and, despite the odds, managed to rack up a
Ph.D and two master's degrees.

Savage is a
strict conservative, with perhaps just a trace of libertarianism poking
through, espousing, to say the least, no love for either the Republicans or the
Democrats.What particularly impresses
me, though, is his love of animals.He
and his poodle, Teddy, are shown above.What one may not anticipate about Savage, however, is his deep love for
the world's elephants -- and his marked hatred for the poachers, whom he
believes should be shot dead where they stand.

Michael Savage,
big ol' brute Savage -- did you know he donates thousands of dollars to protect
elephants and pay for intercepting poachers before they have a chance to slowly
and agonizingly murder the world's pachyderms?Yet, despite such good deeds, he was banned from England because they
apparently don't like his politics (though Great Britain seems to have no
problems allowing radical Islamism into the country).He's also contributed monetarily, and
apparently handsomely, to help defray legal expenses for U.S. military
personnel who served in the Middle East, now either facing or already residing
in prison because our government put them there.Which doesn't necessarily mean one belongs
there.

Having just published
his second spy novel, Savage was already the author of numerous books about the
sciences, based upon his education and experiences internationally.Love him or hate him, Michael sugarcoats
nothing and lays his often brash opinions on the line during his show,
"The Savage Nation."And, yep
-- he loves the critters, so don't be put off by what frequently seems a harsh
exterior.I suspect that this friend to
animals is really a pussycat in disguise.*

When one hand
neglects to wash the other, what happens?The number of people with autism, dementia and Alzheimer's is reportedly
rising, creating a real problem as years go by -- in no small part because
there may not be enough younger folk to care for them.So we wonder, if this is what it all comes down
to, will the Alzheimer's sufferers care for the autistic, or the autistic for
the Alzheimer's patients?Or will
dispassionate robots be in charge before a crisis occurs?What about those radio commercials selling
food that lasts for 25 years in case of a disaster?In 25 years, neither the dementia-ridden,
Alzheimer's-afflicted or autistic may have the ability even to know there's
food in those pouches, let alone know how to open the packages.That's the real disaster, I should think.

CLINTON, BUSH, CLINTON,
BUSH, CLINTON, BUSH:Um, for one thing, Hillary already tried to
run for prez, and that didn't work out at all well.Then there's her history as secretary of
state -- solidified during the Benghazi catastrophe and her remarkable failure
in trying to solve the world's ills as secretary.Not to be obvious, but isn't there anybody in
America who could run with a fresh face and not be named Clinton or Bush or
Kennedy?Enough already.

Remember the
Alamo?Well, don't bother.By virtue of immigration "reform"
being constructed by the "Gang of 8," because your opinion doesn't
matter anymore, history books will need a rewrite.Clearly, a substantial portion of Mexico's
border jumpers will "inherit" a considerable amount of American real
estate -- and American taxpayers will continue to foot a rather hefty
bill.The Alamo?Took a long time, but Mexico apparently won
that war after all.Secure the
borders?That's a funny one.

May I be so
foolish as to suggest the creation of a new political party? Everybody's heard of the GOP, but how about
the creation of a new political party,the GOPP -- the Grand Old :Prison Party?Prisons, of course, have been around
forever, but so have lots and lots of politicians and banker buddies who should
be confined within prison walls but, strangely, never quite make it that far
because of power, influence and big money.That needs to change.Vote for
the GOPP.

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.Well!Now I know why I'm not making any
money off this thing!Oh, never
mind.Obviously, sometimes literary
brilliance comes free of charge. . .

WHAT DRIVES ME
NUTS:Lots of things, but recently I've become even
more upset with now as opposed to then.Time was, you could actually write a letter
-- that's a paper thingie with writing on it, like from a pen -- to your member
of Congress and get a personal reply.Now, it's mostly form letters, fraudulently signed by auto-pens,
disguised as something Just For You.And
then there's the online nightmare where you can't leave a note until you choose
a category -- and then you generally have to narrow the category down.THEN, if you decide to write a member of
Congress who doesn't represent your district, you're out of luck, unless you
pony (express) up for postage and return to the days of old where you send. . .
a letter.Nevertheless, I've been known
to write those strange and foreign U.S. members of Congress with my views by
lying my ass off in the name and address section on the Web so my extremely
self-important messages would not be rejected.I often wonder, though, what happens if some miscellaneous congressional
staffer actually responds with a reply mailed to constituent Mr. Chuck Wagonn at
666 Beware St., Cornershadows LA 66666? Well, that's not my problem, is it?

(* Photo from
"The Savage Nation" Web site -- see link to Michael Savage)

Friday, April 5, 2013

1964:As a teenager, there were, particularly, two
things
among many things I didn't know.First,
I didn't know that one could be in the presence of celebrity and fail to
realize it -- and second, I didn't know that a summertime experience at the NY
State Fair would hardly provide my only encounter with remarkable examples of
human deformity, because just four years later I would be working with patients
in Air Force hospitals while the Vietnam Era continued to unfold tragically.

I'm sure the
term has mostly died off with the passage of politically correct years, but
there was a time when just about every circus or fair passing through any town
in America prominently featured a freak show, basically a sideshow, a
cavalcade of weirdness hidden behind closed tents, and for a nominal price
folks could enter and travel from one display to another.In one place you could see a scantily-clad
woman or man cavorting with snakes in a pit, while in another you could gaze in
astonishment at a fat lady (who didn’t sing).There were also half man / half beast creatures, helped along with a
little makeup and costume applications.Tiny people, tall people, people with alligator-like skin, human pin
cushions -- all sorts of people sat, stood, moved about or just posed for those
brave enough to plunk down the price of admission and enter the tents. The very
idea of freaks, you may recall, provided fodder for Tod Browning’s old movie of
the same name.

Some of the
"exhibits" included people born with genuine physical deformities,
and during that era a fair share were societal outcasts, sometimes shunned by
their own families, sadly.However, one
thing was sure -- for many of these folks, the "freak show"
atmosphere in which a curious public actually paid to see what it viewed as
abnormal meant jobs for the otherwise unfortunate, steady employment from town
to town -- and comfort plus companionship among those of a similar lot at least
resulted in something of a cohesive existence.

Recently, I
happened to find the two photos posted here (and for those of you new to either
the computer or this blog, remember that you can always enlarge the visuals by
putting your cursor over them and left-clicking with your mouse).I discovered them, as usual, in a Dreaded Box
of Things, of which I'm cursed with an abundance.

I hadn't thought
about the photos for years, but remember well meeting the "attractions"
pictured in each during that 1964 NY State Fair visit, while the James E. Strates show was in town.I don't recall how much I paid, maybe a
dollar or two per picture.But -- oh,
what I did not know, and after all
these years I was amazed to discover during a casual Internet search that both
Williams Durks and Sylvia Porter were indeed celebrities.Merely by putting their names into a search
engine, I found elaborate Web sites devoted to freak shows, lovingly committed
to humanizing and telling impressive stories about many people whom most of us only
saw as objects of fascination

William Durks,
for instance, was born in Alabama with frontonasal dysplasia, preventing
both sides of his face to merge together.Following many hard years as a sharecropper, a carnival discovered him
in his forties and offered him a job as an attraction.Reportedly blind in one eye, he even painted
a third eye on his face (visible here in the middle) to become even more
marketable.Durks was truly a celebrity
among his fellows, and on the reverse side of my photo he merely signed his
name because I was probably too amazed to ask for any particular words.

Sylvia Porter
apparently enjoyed autographing her photos, based upon those I saw on the
Web.On mine, she thoughtfully included
the year, 1964.Porter, like Durks, hailed
from Alabama, was very kind to her admirers and happily entertained questions
about how she became "the woman with the biggest feet in the world,"
and she was more generally known as "The Elephant Girl."Her enormous feet, victim to abnormal fluid accumulation
(lymphedema), prevented her from wearing shoes.Reportedly, Sylvia bemoaned the approaching
end of freak shows, concerned about her future role in a changing country
showing, no longer, an appetite for the word, freak.Additionally, one
might expect that advances in medical science and surgical procedures served to
correct disabilities and deformities formerly suited to travels with circuses
and fairs.

The
disappearance of freak shows may have appeased the politically correct, but
I've a feeling it resulted in a great deal of unemployment and further
heartache for those who otherwise had no comforting relationship with
"normal" society, which separated them from their friends and livelihood
in the name of misguided empathy.

So, thanks for
those precious and fleeting moments, William and Sylvia, and may you and all
the other departed stars of -- once upon a time -- the greatest “freak shows”
on earth rest in peace.If there's a
human soul, you folks embraced it.

Monday, April 1, 2013

Welcome to New York
State, poised to be the new fascist capitol
of the United States,
and just determined in a national survey to be the least "free"
state in the country.While NY
City's mayor Michael Bloomberg prostitutes a significant and steady share of
his wealth and power in attempts to ban or modify a laundry list of Things He
Doesn't Think You Should Decide About As A Formerly Free American, the state's
governor Andrew Cuomo laughs off concerned gun owners as extremists while he
and fellow usurpers of common sense and the public good forge ahead with the
strictest and likely most unconstitutional firearm legislation in the U.S.No doubt about it, the masks are off now and
the charade is over.Bloomberg even
spends his fortune to influence elections out of state.And Cuomo?Funny what depths some folks will plumb to become president, even
turning against one's own people with the stroke of a pen to facilitate a
self-journey to official Washington Oz and its elite.May the nation know him for what he is, long
before the 2016 elections.Megalomania
is never pretty.

It's little
wonder that guns have become all the buzz among members of the nation's political
class, already beholden to an agenda of control.They don't take kindly or comfortably to a
Second Amendment intended to sort out protections for those who serve, and for
those who are served, from those who merely rule and dominate.

Meanwhile, as
all the special interests attired in sheeps' clothing are out there, blaming and
condemning law-abiding Americans because they can't get their hands on so much
as the ghosts of Adam Lanza, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold and a host of others
who checked out after completion of their grizzly actions,yet another series of homicides is about to
take place within the classrooms of schools all over the country -- murders of
the mind.Common Core, See-Scope
and other "teaching tools" approved by members ofboth political parties hover in readiness to
invade schools and the learning process.The dangers ofthis New School
are said to include technological monitoring (with high-tech equipment
literally spying on young brains) and data mining of students and their
families, and the choices -- the real choices -- will no longer be decided at
the parent-teacher level.Almost before
children can do math -- and it is our understanding that "math" will
hardly be the same again -- an electronic file springs into existence, damned
nearly noting their every everything, and a digital identity will
conceivably track them indefinitely, providing enough data to determine an
educational and employment fate over which they may have no control.This is not the U.S.This is China.This is Russia.Is it not?Critics say this wild curricula might be stopped, but the time is
short.This year.School PTAs and state and local legislators
at every level must heed these potential changes with extreme caution because,
according to some, this is the situation that will determine how free our
country will remain evermore.

And the battle
over guns?The cart-before-the-horse
crowd, even as polls show the public has become bored with the whole affair,
continues to focus upon firearms, seemingly caring barely a whit about why,
why, why society grows increasingly violent, crazed and disconnected from
what used to be a sense of reality one could almost touch and feel.No more.Thanks a lot for laughs from the other side, digital world. The worst may be yet to come, for the young.

We were advised
years ago, not that many, never to fear the computer. Instead,we were to embrace its marvels and be set
free from our cares.That was then.Now, we wake up every morning with a fair
amount of dread, or should.Who will
hack our computers today?Who will shut
down our electrical or water supplies?Who will steal our identities today?Who will track our every move today and take photos with tiny objects
too diminutive to see?How many hundreds
or thousands of dollars will it cost to repair a digital catastrophe in the
automobile?How do we know our digital
votes at election time aren't being hijacked and changed?Why is it that personal information
authorities promised would be impossible to steal is stolen on a regular
basis?Who can we trust?Who should trust us?Maybe your heroes include Gates, Zuckerberg,
Google (yes, which owns and carries this very blog) and all the other familiar
names, but they are not my heroes.What
they are is inventors and inventions, but perhaps more for the moment than the
future, and that's a good thing -- but when inventions morph into structures to
be feared, fostering the emergence of supremely technical people with more
knowledge and influence than our own governments or societies can contend with
on something equivalent to an equal footing, that's worrisome.Some may prefer technocratic rule over the
votes of a congressman from some farming district, but therein lies the
danger.How can common people share in
and drive the destiny guaranteed to them within a government when computers
intrude, fail to enable freedom and instead enslave those who dwell far outside
of the digital kingdom whose hardware ultimately prefers obedience and sameness
over ingenuity of the individual who desires a computer-less existence?Nonetheless, not even computer technology may
survive the next wave of uniquity splashing over an horizon of chaos.

IN THE NEWS --
WET NO MORE:I think most of us can agree that the term,
wetbacks, a vulgar term applied primarily to Mexicans who enter the USA
illegally, is rude, crude and unfathomable in today's society, so I, too, was
appalled at the government representative who used a word he grew up with
without giving its utterance a second thought.Indeed, people of any culture and any nation who come into the country
against our laws, as already written, should more accurately be referenced as
illegal border-jumping criminal aliens.That sort of encompasses everybody, don't you think?

GAY MARRIAGE:Hey youse, when I jumped up and called for
gay folk the privilege of serving in the military, no way did I see the
marriage thing on the track.Are you
crazy?Keep this up and I may well
address the courts for my right to marry a dog -- though I reluctantly confess
I've never known a dog that would have me.Then again, loose tongues admit that there's nothing like a nice bouquet
of dog biscuits, rabbit scent, road kill fragments and Ken-L-Ration to attract
the very best.Trouble is, I don't think
they make Ken-L-Ration anymore.

FORT HOOD:Please, somebody get Major Hasan's
court-martial and trial on course.Anybody who thinks his religion doesn't have a bearing on a nearly
four-year delay -- I have a bridge high over the deep crystal blue waters of
Saudi Arabia I'd like to sell you.13
dead, dozens injured, and none were allowed the carry a firearm in that
"gun free" zone on an Army base that day.Are you kidding?And why is Obama's Justice Department in on
this mess?So goes the JD, so goes the
Administration, and thus the roadblocks in awarding The Purple Heart to the
victims.Any moron knows these folks
were shot because of a jihad-headed Islamic terrorist wearing a U.S. military
uniform, not something relating to "workplace violence."Hasan will be found guilty for all
that is "alleged," and he should receive the deadliest of death
penalties for it (too bad a little water-boarding can't be administered first,
just for old times' sake), IF anybody still has the courage to do the right
thing in this increasingly wussie-fied country.

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